94. The Two Wolves

This is often attributed as being an old Native American Cherokee legend (and I’ve obviously depicted it as such) but after doing a bit of digging online I found that its origins are disputed. This source gives pretty convincing evidence that it’s only a few decades old and evolved from a passage in a Billy Graham book. And Wiki Answers claim that the moral ending of the passage is inconsistent with traditional Cherokee fables. So I don’t know who to believe, and I didn’t credit the quote on the comic. If anyone can help clarify the source, please leave a comment. Regardless of the origin, it’s a great little proverb and one I wanted to adapt and share with you.

Thanks to everyone who submitted this quote, it’s one of the most frequent requests I get.

I don’t believe that for a second. If you’re anything like me I’m willing to bet this comic went with you and you found a lot of instances in your life where you were feeding the Dark Wolf instead of the Light one.

I used to feed the Dark one because in my younger years I thought it was cool to be apathetic and nihilistic (a la George Carlin). Then I figured out that, while it got me some laughs, it didn’t improve my life.

So you mean you would feed both wolves evenly?
But, the black wolf feeds itself off the white wolf.
So if you give them both the same meals, the black wolf would surely win.
And if you gave the white wolf more food to balance this, would you not be favouring the white wolf?

But in essenceof the Cherokee legend, the old man does not simply answer “the one you feed.”He instead goes to explain that by feeding only the white wolf, the black wolf would grow desperate in its starvation. Thus the black wolf would strike constantly to try to gain attention from you. Also you would not gain the good things of which the black wolf can give to you. For you need both to see with clarity, as a person who is endlessly at war within cannot see the world around them.

TL;DR: Feed them both equally, because the white wolf needs the black wolf at its side.

In my life’s research I would believe the source will be unknown. This comic has reminded me as a Buddhist principle. The answers are from within and the battle of the mind vs. the heart. Whatever the source, it most certainly came from a person of self-knowledge. Therefore, ever since time began, humans have always have had the habit of observing one’s self.

I love this saying. I first heard it in the movie Steppenwolf based on the novel of the same name by Herman Hesse. The movie was release in 1974 which predates the Billy Graham reference. I don’t know if the story was in the actual novel, but the novel was published in 1927.

I have heard it other places as well, and I would really be surprised if the source is Billy Graham.

This is called a synchronicity (which is not the same thing as a coincidence). It happens to you more and more as you rise into higher consciousness, as you become more aware of the oneness of all things, the dreamlike nature of reality, and the fact that spirit/source/heart (whatever that is for you) is speaking to you at all times.

You know this story is a bit misleading if you leave some of the wolves die there will be no balance, just pure evil or you will be blinded by the “goodness” that excess makes us arrogant and controlling. It seems silly but the movie starwars we see that the Jedi have total control of justice and become an blind elite, with the exception of yoda representing the balance, but the elitism of the Jedi council made ??people who were not as good and they jealous this gave room for the dark side grow.

btw your job is great but pass this message to people without certain level of discernment could be a little dangerous.

This is your black wolf speaking. If you look at the traits associated with the black wolf, none of them are good, and the simple fact that you would feel the need to comment as you have shows that you either do not get the moral of the story (which is plain as daylight), or your “black wolf” is urging you to validate its existence. There is no place in the future for any of the traits associated with the black wolf. Evolve together, or be left behind.

Anger, sorrow and regret are perfectly normal human emotions that are in no way, shape or form evil, except when they get out of control. Aggression is a trait that almost all so-called higher species share – it would have died out long ago if its effect was purely negative. And what exactly would a human being be without “ego”?

On the other hand, a few traits of the white wolf are damaging if pushed too far, especially generosity and truth – we can’t all be martyrs, and where would human society be without lies? We need to keep the black wolf tightly leashed, but killing it off would remove basic traits of what it means to be human.

Would you really, honestly want to live in a world where everyone spoke nothing but truth all the time, no matter how hurtful? That’s what I mean by “lying” in this context. Honesty can hurt people as badly as dishonesty.

I agree strongly with what Brandywell says here. V and Ospero, you are letting your black wolf control your thinking. In V’s metaphor, you’re like young Anakin, taking counsel from the Sith Lord, thinking him wise, when really he is corrupting you so that you will continue to feed and serve him.

The black wolf will never die, it’ll always be there and you will always have to fight it. It’s that struggle that makes us human, people fight this wolf and every time they put someone else ahead of themself it’s a victory but the black wolf is always back. That’s why we always have to be vigilant, to watch ourselves.

A simple answer if the story is from Billy Graham or another Christian source….

There is this thing called the wordless book. It is a witnessing tool to get people to understand the concept of sin and the need of repentance, it is generally believed to go back to Charles Haddon Spurgeon. And the year it came out was around 1866.

In the book, black is the color tied to sin, white is tied to heaven. Hence when making connections with wolves, the colors would correlate to what the storyteller would know with colors already.

By the way for those curious Spurgeon’s Wordless book had only three pages:
Black: representing the sinful state of humanity by nature. Usually referred to as the dark page.
Red: representing the blood of Jesus.
White: representing the perfect righteousness which God has given to believers through the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ his Son.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordless_Book

The short answer is that light brings awareness, and pure undistorted light appears as white. Light has been a symbol of spirituality, purity, and divinity throughout all of recorded history.

However, there is a buddhist concept of The Void (Sunyata) that I interpret in this way: it is the letting go of all illusions. This place appears as blackness to the mind. When we exist in the void, we are pure I Am. This is another way of experiencing spirituality, purity, and divinity.

Most people are terrified of the void, because the black wolf lives in the place you have to go through to get there, and you must let go of all of the egoic thoughts and feelings that most people use as defenses against the black wolf (their own fears and ego are essentially fighting themselves here) and the world.

This requires tremendous faith, but if you succeed, you enter an eternal space, and you realize that you are the white wolf; not the illusions of color and form, but the truth of it. You are not alone in a separated sense. You are alone with the true realization that you are the entirity of all that is.

So white and black can both be powerful spiritual symbols, but most people easily see that light (white) is spiritual, while they remain afraid of the void (black). Either way, always remember that it is the meaning behind the symbol that matters.

This is exactly what I needed to see at this precise moment! I have been feeding the Evil Wolf way too much and this gave me the nudge that I needed to change. It even sparked a new blog post! Check it out at http://recreatinglisa.wordpress.com/. Keep the awesomeness coming!

I really admire how you could depict goodness and evil in your drawings of the wolf. Looking into the eyes of the white wolf, I felt like it understood the very bottom of my heart, and that it wanted nothing more than for me to let it win the battle. It gives me chills to be so well-understood by a voiceless cartoon animal. Really fantastic stuff Gav!

I am totally addicted to the site, I just spent over an hour going through the archives…not all of the comics resonate with me, but every so often one does. The past hour and a half has been like taking a walk on a beach finding a new and interesting shell every five minutes.

Still, I believe ego is not -bad- by itself – it is just an illusion that makes things look separated, black or white, good or bad (but never mixed).

We need black wolves to learn about goodness. Love the black wolf inside you as a teacher and nurture the white one without attaching to it. When the two finally befriend themselves, you found the truth.

Actually, learn to love what you fear most is the most amazing thing I have ever encountered in my life…

The comic is well done – but I, like others it seems, have a slight issue with the colours of the wolves. I think it might be more interesting to put them in the different shades of grey wolves, keeping the facial expressions definitely, but showing there is still more nuance to the battle. They are the same wolf with different faces.
However, I do enjoy your work! Thank you for continuing to bring interesting ways of looking at different quotes.
Incidentally – the Cherokee did not wear headdresses. That is a Hollywood stereotype drawn from plains tribes like the Sioux.

Nice comic and very inspirational. It is IMHO better to feed the white wolve, but I’m sorry to say that faith doesn’t has that importance in zen as implicated in this comic.
And – as NEAL right before me said – I also would like to see two grey wolves, because good an evil are not black and white, they are only different sides of the same coin.
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I don’t think this entire site is dedicated to zen…, so don’t put it in an box right away.

Also, Gav draws comics, it’s a visual art, you need to depict things in a way where people quickly understand the concepts, hence black and white.

Also I think I know what you try to say, but I don’t know about the two sides of coin thing.
Evil is where Good is absent. So Good needs to be done to prevent evil.
Speaking as a physicist, darkness in itself is not an entity, it is the absence of light. Light is something, either wave or particle, darkness is neither.

I really love this one. I’m not sure about the very original source, but the first time I read this legend was in Hermann Hesse’s “Der Steppenwolf”. Don’t know if this will be of any help… 😉 Take care! Jindra

Hello
Thank you for making the child a girl!
I love this quote, the fact that we choose the way we are is absolute freedom. And that wisdom is passed from the elders to the children, like it is for everyone, not only the strongest or the most intelligent.
Thank you for sharing your comics with us!

We use good wolf-bad wolf in our middle school’s character ed program… the kids could really relate… We talk of making good choices and with GWBW it’s easy to ask… “so which wolf are you feeding today?” Their writing of how which wolf is showing up in their lives is some of thej most powerful stuff I’ve ever read from this age level… Thank you for putting your images up… I’ll be sharing it with the kids.. and ordering prints too.

Not entirely convinced ego and faith are in the right category, especially in such a promiment place in the comic. They are very loaded words. Having faith is not always good, and having ego is not always bad.

Most of the other words are quite clear-cut in the right category, so it’s a shame that all the emphasis is put on the only two that are so ambiguous.

I don’t have an exacte quote, but the only thing that came to mind was something in the new testament. I searched it online and I realized that the features attributed to the white wolf closely resemble what are called “the fruits of the spirit” which apparently should increase when you have Christ living in you.
So the reference is the book of Galatians 5 verse 22 and 23. Interesting stuff in there.
So I can see how it could be from that Graham guy or something he read. Seems plausible.

However if it comes from another culture I’d rather see it attributed to its right source as so many people have discovered so much of the truth. Christianity if reduced to a culture, like in America, is just such a mindless vanity, it’s just one nutcase religion like any other. However this is Christianity without Christ.
Christianity with Christ is a whole other story. I think it has something found nowhere else.
Sorry I digress.

I still think it would be cool if it was a Cherokee story, so great job on the interpretation.

Amazing depiction of an excellent quote to, not only reflect about our daily choices, but also take to kids and students… However, I agree with many of the comments above that it would definitely be a better one if it did not reinforce the black & white view of evil versus goodness. You have a gift for body language and facial expressions which makes it irrelevant to change the colors of the wolves to figure out which would be the angrier of them.

I know it is not our business to interfere with ART, specially your art – because that is what you do every week, you give us a pure and beautiful depiction of something which make us think critically about ourselves and the world we live in – but I am sure some of us could use your work to discuss or teach, and I believe it is our duty to change, if not the current, but the next generation’s views of (the human) race.

Anyway, thank you for your daily labor – see you next week for another inspirational story.

To all people saying faith isn’t necessarily a good thing, I don’t think it means religion here (not saying anything for or against religion).
Personally, what I think it means is the ability to keep going no matter what. To believe in something with your whole heart and soul, and to let that faith spur you on to do incredible things.
Take Gav, for example-it took a whole lot of faith and a belief in his abilities to quit his job, and look where he is now.
As for the white and black wolves, imagine that the good wolf has black fur in that panel where it seems to be staring into your soul…for me, those eyes looking at me with a dark background would look scary. The colour of their fur has nothing to do with the characteristics they embody. Just reading a few of these comics, you can tell that one of the main themes is equality, and he’s one of the least discriminating people I can think of. I think it’s beautifully drawn either way though.
Sorry for the rant. Gav, love the comics, love this comic, love what you do 🙂

When black and white fight, no winner will be chosen. With a black wolf and a white wolf in the ring an endless battle is all that we’ll find. We will be presented: the color ‘gray’. We all have a certain balance.

Based on what we’ve learned from our parents and based on what we’ve learned from our teachers. We all have a different color of gray. Based on this shade, we shall choose our own direction. We will have compassion, we shall have greed. We will know love and we will know hate. Based on the black and white we have been feeding with, we will show which shade of gray we have.

What you fail to realise and understand with your Yin and Ying new-age cliches of “neutrality” being needed is this: What place do ANY of the black wolf’s characteristics benefit you? If you think any of them do, you have been fooled and are obviously feeding your “black wolf”. The world is NOT gray, it is black and white and what is wrong and right is often times very clear once you strip away your inhibitions. While your ideology of “neutrality” is romantic I must admit, it’s far from centre. Quit kidding yourself, embrace what is right. Be a good human being and send the black wolf packing.

Gandhi got angry at what the British were doing to India. So did a lot of the liberators of colonial Africa.

Mother Teresa got sorrowful when she saw what was happening to the poor in Calcutta.

The Dalai Lama is probably both angry and disappointed at the Chinese for what they do to Tibet.

You wanted positive examples of what the black wolf’s supposed vices can do for humans? There you go. As long as you channel your anger, sorrow and regret into doing constructive things, they’re actually useful.

Oh, and pretending the world is black and white when it clearly is not is willfully blinding yourself. What virtue of the white wolf would that be, exactly?

By the way, all those examples you listed of Gandhi and the Dalai Lama and all these other cliche references, those people are not acting on behalf of the “black wolf” — Their anger comes from the virtues of the “white wolf”. Next time you try to argue about something at least look at what you are saying.

Anger is explicitly listed as a vice of the black wolf. Perhaps you should follow your own advice on this and read the quote before you post. Yes, these people got angry for “good reasons”, but there’s the catch, isn’t it? This whole quote is reductive and simplistic – I wouldn’t want to live in a world defined purely by the white “virtues” any more than I’d want to live in a world defined exclusively by the black “vices”, and for all your whimpering about “cliché” (as if the quote was any better on that count), neither would you. I won’t tell you what I think of you based on these comments, even though that would be “honest” and therefore “good”, because I’d rightfully get banned from this site for doing that.

i discovered the two wolves comic whilst aimlessly scrolling through my tumblr dashboard, it has now been a good 45 minutes that i have been pressing the previous/next button on your blog, all the quotes are truly inspirational and your extraordinary graphic talent makes them come alive, thankyou 🙂
Melody, London, UK

A couple people have mentioned Hesse’s Steppenwolf, but I’m pretty certain that Hesse is not the source of this quote. While Steppenwolf did deal with duality, the central metaphor was about the struggle between the man and the wolf. Moreover, Hesse endlessly added nuances and variations to his metaphor, never ending with a neat soundbite:
“To explain so complex a man by the division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt…His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands… Every ego is a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and possibilities.”

Thanks for all the comments, wasn’t expecting this comic to generate so much feedback.

As for the black/white issue: I went with the classic black/evil, white/good because it was the first thing I thought of, yes, comics are visual so I’m always thinking visually. It would have been cool if I flipped it around and made black/good and white/evil but it didn’t occur to me while I was creating it.

I draw and publish the comic within a short time span and sometimes I think ‘Oh, I should have done it this way or that way’ but once it’s published it’s done and I move on to the next one.

As cliche as it is to make the black one evil and the white one good, it is even more cliche and trite to reverse it. You don’t have to be too concerned with being clever. Take a leaf out of Hemingway’s book and just present everything as it seems, naturally. It worked for him rather well.

It is a sad thing, but my black students don’t represent themselves with dark skin in self-portraits because black is the evil color. They have six, seven years of age, and they left their skin white because “white is the color of beauty and good”.

hi…I’ve been read your material for a while now.I’m really impressed and at the same time I’ve been inspired by your work. Can you please make a wallpaper for PRESS ON! by Calvin Coolidge. It’s my favorite out of all your work so far. I read that comic everyday to keep me motivated in my life.

I shared this with my 6th grade classes today. You could have heard a pin drop. They nodded vigorously as their personal and private struggles were validated. Another teacher came and told me, “(Kid) said that he loved English class today because he learned that all people possess both good and bad. Your work made the world a better place today, for at least 100 American kids and one revitalized teacher. The Einstein quote about the fish is now my wall paper. I can’t wait to buy prints for my classroom.

This cartoon is great, but I read some comments saying the black wolf is also needed, and I want to display it with a jewish story. I hope it’s not too long to read, beacuse I would like to read Gav’s and other people’s comments about the idea expressed in it.
The jewish sages and prophets beileved that the first temple was destroyed and their people were banished to Babylon as a punishment for paganism, so when they returned to their country and build another temple, they asked God to destroy the will to worship paganic gods. After 3 days of prayers and fasts, God agreed. The sages saw this “will” coming out of the temple as a fire lion and killed it.
Amazed by their success, all those rabbis decided to exploit this moment of compassion from God, and kill another dangerous “will”- lust. By their request, they recieved another lion, this time just putting it in a cage. 3 days passed, and they couldn’t find even one egg.
Understanding the world can’t exist without sex, they released lust, after blinding it. Without eyes, the sexual tension among family relatives dropped.
This story shows, in my opinion, that even traits that are considered to be bad in the jewish belief, rest in the holiest place, and can be used for good (in the paganism’s case, it might be religious enthusiasm or something like that).
Gav, if you did read all that, what do you think?

Thank you. After getting the reactions I did for suggesting that not all of the black vices were dispensable, it’s refreshing to go through all the comments and find one that actually seems to agree with what I was saying. 😉

I sort of understand where you might be coming from. I find myself feeling the same way about people who LOVE Thomas Kinkade paintings because as a painter they seem trite and saccharine. Maybe you are a philosopher or something and that’s what makes you recommend self sterilisation to anyone who likes this. No, it’s not as nuanced and detailed as some long treatise by Sartre but it is simple and positive and I liked it. Just like a Kinkade painting works on a grandmothers wall but not the Gugenheim, not everything has to be at “your level” to be good. Personally, if you feel the need to comment you should frame it as constructive criticism, otherwise you look like a troll and/or a douche.

I shared this with a friend here at work, thinking it was just a neat little comic. Personally, it was something for me. As it turned out she shared it with her kids, and it helped them deal with and understand their emotions more effectively during a challenging time in their lives.

There’s a third wolf that’s left out of this sequence. He’s off to the the side watching the two wolves, and wonders why they fight. HE wonders why they need Ego, or why the passions of the white wolf are preferred. He constantly questions the internal struggle, and wonders why the two can’t exist in harmony…Maybe that third wolf is actually me.

Great comic. But I would note that in many ways faith is just another form of ego. When a person says “I have faith in XYZ” the key part is the “I”. It is an imposition of the ego’s conceptions (of God, gods, etc.) on eternity/the universe/etc. We tell ourselves that faith is a form of egolessness, but it is in fact the height of ego.

Although I read your comics regularly, my first time posting a comment. I am kind of an amateurish musician and during my weekend session, came up with a song that was inspired by your comic here – the two wolves.

At one point in my life, I got jumped on my way home from town, got kicked and stomped in the head several times, spent some considerable time in hospital as I according to the docs was incredibly lucky to still be alive. The injuries I got have mostly healed, but have made life difficult every now and then.

But almost everytime I tell people about that experience and how it has affected me, people will go

“Damn if I got my hands on those guys I’d do this and that to them grrrrr %”%¤”#!! wouldn’t you do the same?” (or similar reaction)
And all I can think is “How is that gonna make me a better person?”

This story reminds me of the conflict between Angra Mainyu and Spenta Mainyu from Zoroastrianism. The belief states that the battle between truth and falsehood is played out in people’s hearts, and people’s actions will either give strength to Spenta Mainyu (truth) or to Angra Mainyu (chaos). The belief focuses on the importance of human will and recognizing the fact that you have the capability to choose what path to take. It also shows that your actions have a greater effect upon the world.
I know that this was a really simplified version of the belief, but I found it beautiful, and I wanted to share it with everyone here since it ties in so nicely to this story.
On a personal note, I believe that you have to recognize this fight within you to accomplish anything in your life. While chaos is seen as evil in Zoroastrianism, I feel that it is something that inspires people to rise above it. For what would courage be if there was no risk to take? Without the threat of our lives and work for unraveling, there would be no need to trust other people with our hearts and lives.

The story is so concise. I like it a lot ! I’ve known this idea from the book called” The Art of Power” by Thich Nhat Hanh. We must be careful about our environment. If we always watch violent news on TV or newspaper, we’ll see the world in a negative way
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The illustration of this familiar quote was excellent. But I actually subscribe to the notion that instead of two separate wolves that is totally distinguished representing the right and wrong, humans represent the ying and yang. There is the black in the white and the white in the black. Because bad people could show kindness while kind people could err. Just my two cents.

Um, not sure if you are checking these comments anymore, but there is one BIG thing which everyone caught up on the wolves didn’t notice.

These Native Americans are highly stereotypical and not at all accurate.

You dressed them as the stereotypical Plains Indians. Cherokees did not wear the feathered head dresses, and most Natives never wore headbands- that was added by Hollywood to help keep the wigs on the actors when doing stunts.

And I also suggest checking out the Documentary Reel Injuns, which helps highlight how Hollywood has shaped and twisted the public image of Natives into something that is far from accurate, and is actually very damaging to Native Communities.

The story is NOT native at all. The story can be tracked back through Buddhist scrolls way before America was ever “discovered”. Its jut a case of someone somewhere wanted to sound all mystical and misappropriated the tale. It probably got it start in some “sweat lodge” at $300 a head and just kept getting repeated until enough white people became certain it had Indian roots.

This is wonderful! There’s one thing that I didn’t notice the first time I saw this though. In many Native American cultures pointing (with the finger/hand, or in this case also with his cane) is considered rude; pointing with the lips is a much more common non-verbal communication. That said, it certainly doesn’t detract from the work…just some friendly info!

Just thought you’d want to know that I found this comic on another website, and as far as I can tell, you’re not mentioned.
Link: alligator-sunglasses.com/post/40122565240/the-fight-inside/
Awesome comics, by the way! I love them – you just gave me something to do for a whole three hours of my life, but that’s okay, because I know I wouldn’t have done anything productive anyway.
I should really take the advice that all these quotes are giving me… -_-‘

Duality only exists in human eyes, our tendency to “judge” what’s good and what is evil. The universe exists in a perfect balance (ying yang anyone?). Both wolves coexist and that is how it was designed. Both are perfect in their own way. Or rather, there are no wolves 😉

It seems that Christian values are not well received among the comments on this site, but in looking over the art here, I have seen a number of sentiments that I find helpful as a Christian. Re: this panel, I imagine it probably does have a Christian origin, as it mirrors so closely the language of Paul in Galatians 5 in describing the conflict between the flesh and the Spirit. (Though the black/white image was not supplied by Paul, there is much in the New Testament about light and darkness. Light refers to enlightenment or truth. Darkness to a lack thereof. No racial connotation at all. Remember, the writers of the New Testament were Semitic). I know that the idea of right/wrong and evil/good is offensive to some, but it is foundational to Christian faith.

Hi Stan, I appreciate your comments expressing your beliefs. I do not find them offensive. My concern is that when someone judges a person or behavior as right/wrong, then they believe they have the right to punish the other person. (Someone once said, “Judge not …”)

Here is an example and is not what I believe, just a possibility: If I believe it is wrong to follow the Christian faith, then I feel good doing harm to Christians. Now when Christians see me as someone who believes he is justified in harming Christians, I am guessing at least some Christians will decide I am an evildoer and they have the right to punish me to get me to stop my behavior. People who think like I do will join in to keep the Christians from harming me or will harm more Christians in the process. It will just keep escalating.

As Gandhi says, “An eye for an eye and soon the whole world is blind.”

I find it works better if I can understand what is going on for the other person and let him/her know it is not working for me. How can we come up with something that works for both of us?

This is a difficult concept to teach over an extended period of time. Some people take years to understand it. So I hope what I have posted is helpful.

except this story is not Native American, it’s Asian. it has it’s origins in Buddhist tradition. It’s ZEN! How did you miss that??? Sadly, this has been repeated enough that people BELIEVE it’s Native American adding to the mountains of misinformation and falsehoods about Native people.

Who wins or loses in my heart depends on which one I feed more, you say?

Actually, I’m growing their pups with a lot of color variation.
Yeah, I make them have pups. They become a couple, sometimes they have a fight, but then again they have to live together under the same roof: Me.

Not wanting to be a troll but I think this presentation is a little racist. The drawings of the American Indians are in bad taste, for the same reason depicting an African with a bone in his nose is in bad taste. I’m from Oklahoma and we’ve learned that you’re better off leaving these kinds of things to tribal members and let them decide how to use them. I like the point of the story but there must be a better way of presenting it. (BTW, Cherokees didn’t wear headresses or buckskins of the Plains tribes).

Dear GAV,
I love your comics!!!
About this comic-I think our life’s situations are not always as black and white as this.I am reading the NARUTO manga-in it there is a situation where he has to battle with his dark side inside his mind.I think that picture is closer to reality. The dark side does have those qualities mentioned in the comic but it is not always evil.Naruoto shows that you don’t have to feed any one wolf and make it win.Please check it out – http://narutobase.net/manga/Naruto/493

Thanks for boiling down the human emotional state to some dichotomy where you’ve decided what emotions people are allowed to feel. Very good. Tell me when you were doing your research which i assume was reading hallmark cards in your local news stand, did you stop and think that maybe vilifying parts of the human experience might in fact be a poor decision?

So you’re telling this child that there is literally Gmork from the never ending story living in them and if they ever feel angry..proud or even SAD or even REGRET then they’re literally committing an evil act. An evil act! Calling regret evil! Calling SADDNESS evil. Emotions don’t have moral allignments only acts do what the fuck

You can commit acts of good out of anger or fear. My parents yelled at me to not do things because they were afriad of me hurting myself, because they loved me. But i guess they were ‘feeding an evil wolf’ when they terrified scolded me for playing on the street. Right? Evil.

And i guess my friends mum who kept giving her drug addict son money for drugs because she ‘loved’ him and had ’empahty’ was a GOOD act. Right? Cause she loved him and had ‘faith’ he would stop doing drugs.

What a pile of garbage whats entire premise breaks down the moment you ask ‘is feeling sad evil’.

Please think about this sort of trash before you write it because i am AFRIAD (evil act) that someone will read this and literally take it to heart.

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This is a story that appears in a Jewish theological work many centuries ago called The Tanya…its a chassidic text and tells this story exactly… Could have been passed around through many cultures do that time, but I read it there when studying this particular text…

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This is wonderful! There’s one thing that I didn’t notice the first time I saw this though. In many Native American cultures pointing (with the finger/hand, or in this case also with his cane) is considered rude; pointing with the lips is a much more common non-verbal communication. That said, it certainly doesn’t detract from the work…just some friendly info!

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This is not a native american story. This is a story told by christians to emphasize the dualistic nature in their world view. The few christians in the early years of the colonization of the American continent, who actually bothered to learn natives’ language probably heard them telling their stories, and came up with this one as a way to present concepts like good and evil to a culture that in fact did not see the world so black and white.

Stop passing this dualistic eurocentric bullshit off as a native american story. If you want to hear some real native american stories, you can read a wonderful book called Life Lived Like a Story by Julie Cruikshank, an anthropologist who has spent her career listening to native narratives. Not only is this story NOT published anywhere in ANY body of native or first people narratives, but it just doesn’t fit with other narratives. I have, myself, spent time with first people listening to their stories, and this is just not the way they tell a story. I’ve never heard a single one with the moral of the story all gift wrapped at the end like that. If you just give somebody the moral, why bother even telling the story?

I love this saying. I first heard it in the movie Steppenwolf based on the novel of the same name by Herman Hesse. The movie was release in 1974 which predates the Billy Graham reference. I don’t know if the story was in the actual novel, but the novel was published in 1927.

I have heard it other places as well, and I would really be surprised if the source is Billy Graham.

Nice comic and very inspirational. It is IMHO better to feed the white wolve, but I’m sorry to say that faith doesn’t has that importance in zen as implicated in this comic.
And – as NEAL right before me said – I also would like to see two grey wolves, because good an evil are not b

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In my life’s research I would believe the source will be unknown. This comic has reminded me as a Buddhist principle. The answers are from within and the battle of the mind vs. the heart. Whatever the source, it most certainly came from a person of self-knowledge. Therefore, ever since time began, humans have always have had the habit of observing one’s self.

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I really love this one. I’m not sure about the very original source, but the first time I read this legend was in Hermann Hesse’s “Der Steppenwolf”. Don’t know if this will be of any help… ???? Take care! Jindra

However if it comes from another culture I’d rather see it attributed to its right source as so many people have discovered so much of the truth. Christianity if reduced to a culture, like in America, is just such a mindless vanity, it’s just one nutcase religion like any other. However this is Christianity without Christ.
Christianity with Christ is a whole other story. I think it has something found nowhere else.
Sorry I digress.

I still think it would be cool if it was a Cherokee story, so great job on the interpretation.

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btw your job is great but pass this message to people without certain level of discernment could be a little dangerous.

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To be clear, this wasn’t Cherokee inspired. The artwork was inspired by this homogenous idea of native Americans instead of the reality that there are 500 nations. You can call it Cherokee, but it’s not. It’s this interpretation of 2 vast continents boiled down into one set notion. If you wouldn’t say that all black, Asian, Latino people look alike, why would anyone make that assumption of Native People?

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Your art is good, by the way, and I think you are definitely talented. Love the wolves especially. Just don’t use it for this.